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MIG Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Meaning of "Speaking"
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Please take a look over use of "speaking" in the text below. What does it mean?
Shouldn't it be "At the speaking" or "speakers"?
A panel of experts at the Fortune TIME CNN Global Forum held in Cape Town South Africa gathered in late June to discuss these matters. Speaking were Jeremy Bentham, vice president in charge of Royal Dutch Shell’s Global Business Environment Team, Manfred Bischoff, Chairman of the German car and truck giant Daimler, Lorenzo Simonelli, CEO of GE Transportation, and Trevor Manuel, South Africa’s Minister of National Planning.
Please take a look over use of "speaking" in the text below. What does it mean?
Shouldn't it be "At the speaking" or "speakers"?
A panel of experts at the Fortune TIME CNN Global Forum held in Cape Town South Africa gathered in late June to discuss these matters. Speaking were Jeremy Bentham, vice president in charge of Royal Dutch Shell’s Global Business Environment Team, Manfred Bischoff, Chairman of the German car and truck giant Daimler, Lorenzo Simonelli, CEO of GE Transportation, and Trevor Manuel, South Africa’s Minister of National Planning.
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The order of the subject and the complement are reversed, so the sentence means Jeremy Bentham, … of National Planning were speaking.
- The order of the subject and the complement are reversed, so the sentence means Jeremy Bentham, … of National Planning were speaking.
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The order of the subject and the complement are reversed, so the sentence means Jeremy Bentham, … of National Planning were speaking.
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